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When you’re perusing a list of famous movie quotations, perhaps the AFI list of 100 most famous quotes, you may not sense a pattern among them. But Eugene Borukhovich, the co-founder of the social question and answer application Q!, certainly did.

“We noticed that a lot of people were asking questions related to the questions posed in movies. So while some are a no-brainer, others actually became almost the taglines or punchlines of the movie,” wrote Borukhovich in an e-mail to Parade. His cross-platform social app, for which he’ll be soon be raising money via a Kickstarter campaign, allows people to get answers to their questions from trusted people in their selected social group. Borukhovich felt that movie questions were a good way for people to try out the product.

“We were aware of the fact that sometimes people hold back from asking questions because they don’t want to seem dumb or misinformed,” he writes. “We thought by creating a list of some of the most famous and provocative questions in some classic films, we could get past any hesitancy to pose questions of your social networks. What’s the worst that can happen? Jack Nicholson might just tell you that ‘You can’t handle the truth!'”

Our slideshow contains 16 of those famous questions, in no particular order. After you read them, add your own in the comments.